{"id":20471,"date":"2014-02-11T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=20471"},"modified":"2014-02-11T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T07:49:11","slug":"assassins-creed-might-be-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/assassins-creed-might-be-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin’s Creed might be for real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wikipedia describes the Assassin’s Creed game premise<\/a> like so:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Assassin’s Creed<\/i>\u00a0games primarily revolves around the rivalry between two ancient secret societies: the Assassins and the\u00a0Knights Templar<\/a>, and their indirect relation to an ancient\u00a0species pre-dating humanity<\/a>, whose society, along with much of Earth’s biosphere, was destroyed by a massive\u00a0solar storm<\/a>. The games’ real-world chronological setting is the year 2012, and feature\u00a0Desmond Miles<\/a>, a bartender who is a descendant of several lines of prominent\u00a0Assassins<\/a>; though raised as an Assassin, he fled his nomadic family to seek out a more common lifestyle. He is initially kidnapped by the\u00a0megacorporation<\/a>\u00a0Abstergo Industries, the modern-day face of the Knights Templar, who are aware of Desmond’s lineage. Desmond is forced to use the “Animus”, a device that allows him to experience his\u00a0ancestral memories<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Initially, when I started playing Assassin’s Creed, I thought that this whole ancestral memory exploration idea was very cool. \u00a0It gave the game an easy opportunity to travel back in time, as well as it explained how the main character could die and resurrect many times during the course of the game.<\/p>\n

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Well, apparently, this is not all fiction – there is a scientific basis for the idea. \u00a0Mysterious Universe<\/a> covers a few bits of research, including this:<\/p>\n

Prof Marcus Pembrey, from University College London, said the findings were “highly relevant to phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders” and provided “compelling evidence” that a form of memory could be passed between generations.<\/p>\n

He commented: “It is high time public health researchers took human transgenerational responses seriously.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not exactly an exploration of ancestral memories yet, but a step in that direction.<\/p>\n

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Wikipedia describes the Assassin’s Creed game premise like so: The\u00a0Assassin’s Creed\u00a0games primarily revolves around the rivalry between two ancient secret societies: the Assassins and the\u00a0Knights Templar, and their indirect relation to an ancient\u00a0species pre-dating humanity, whose society, along with much of Earth’s biosphere, was destroyed by a massive\u00a0solar storm. The games’ real-world chronological setting is … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed might be for real<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[1117,655],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-20471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","tag-research","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t